Share memories of growing up with the great music of the 50s, 60s and 70s. My background includes radio and television personality as well as V.P. A&R for A&M Records, where I signed Bryan Adams. In 1997, I began Treasure Island Oldies, the Home of Lost Treasures. I play the biggies, but extensively feature hard to find rare oldies. Listen live Sundays 6 to 10 p.m. Pacific and also the show archives at www.TreasureIslandOldies.com
Let the memories flow!

Monday, April 28, 2014

Technology got in the way during the 4th hour of this week’s
Live show, preventing the balance of the hour going out. Please accept my
apologies for the inconvenience. There was a “blip” in the feed between the studio
and the network that could not be re-established. The good news is that it did
NOT affect the Archive. So if you’re pining to hear the last hour of the show,
the complete four hours is now available at the Listen page. Thanks again for
your understanding.

A quick reminder that next week
on the show we’ll be celebrating the 17th
Anniversary of Treasure Island Oldies. Many of the listeners have been
loyal almost from the first show way back in 1997. If you’d like to send an
anniversary greeting, please do so by sending an email tomichael@treasureislandoldies.com
or you can call the Listener Line at
206-339-0709 and record your
message. I’ll read your email note and play back your recorded message on the
show. It’ll be a fun party!

Happy
Birthday wishes go out to Marc
Baillergeon in Edmonton, Alberta,
and to our very own Webmaster, Eddy
Fisher! If your birthday is coming up soon, let me know by sending the
details to birthdays@treasureislandoldies.com.
It will be my pleasure to wish you Happy
Birthday on the show and play Birthday
by The Beatles for you.

The Treasure Island Oldies Blog
is playing a big hit by Ricky Nelson.
Hello Mary Lou is our Song of the Week. Enjoy!

Ricky Nelson got his start first on his parents' TV show, The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet. What a way to launch a career! Ricky became hugely popular and ended up with a long and successful recording career.

This week the Treasure Island Oldies Blog is playing a great clip by Ricky Nelson, Hello Mary Lou. It's our Song of the Week.

Monday, April 21, 2014

Happy Easter, Happy Passover, Happy Vaisakhi, Happy Spring! I hope you
are enjoying the beginning of Spring where you live. All the flowers and trees
are in bloom in Vancouver here on the West Coast and it sure is beautiful. It’s
a great time of the year. And it was a great time again this week on Treasure
Island Oldies. It was fun to recognize Record
Store Day, as vinyl is now “in”. As I mentioned on the show, I saw an ad on
TV the other day for Grand Marnier Liqueur that showed an upscale party going
on and the glue that held the event together was the music playing from vinyl
on the turntable. Very cool. And I really enjoyed digging out a vinyl record
from the 1950s that was an in-store demonstration record for a line of budget
records by Coronet Records. I played
two ads each hour and the feedback from the chat room was ‘where can I get an
orthophonic album for $1.49!’ What good fun. I’ve had that record since I was a
kid and finally found a way to incorporate it into the show; and what a great
fit it was for Record Store Day.

I’d like to remind you to be sure to join me for the 17th Anniversary of Treasure Island
Oldies, coming up Live, Sunday, May
4th from 6 to 10 pm,
Pacific. If you’d like to call the Listener
Line at 206-339-0709 to record
you Anniversary greeting, that would be great. Alternatively, you can also
email a note to me at michael@treasureislandoldies.com. I’ll do my best to play
back as many of your messages and notes as I possibly can during the show.

If you have a birthday coming up soon, please be sure to let me know. I’d
love to wish you Happy Birthday on the show on behalf of all the listeners
around the world and play Birthday by
The Beatles for you as well. Send
the details to birthdays@treasureislandoldies.com.

The Treasure Island Oldies Blog
is playing a great live performance by The
Doors with Light My Fire. It’s
our Song of the Week. Enjoy!

Jackie Wilson was born June 9, 1934 in Detroit, Michigan. He's been referred to as one of the all-time great entertainers and "Mr. Excitement". Prior to turning to music, he was an amateur boxer. Becoming a singer, he eventually joined Billy Ward and His Dominoes as a replacement for lead singer, Clyde McPhatter, who went on to a solo career. Jackie also became a solo artist in 1957, the same year he had his first hit record, Reet Petite (The Finest Girl You Ever Want To Meet) and was produced by Berry Gordy Jr., who eventually went on to found Motown Records.

Jackie appeared on the Billboard Hot 100 charts a total of 62 times between 1957 and 1972, scoring 6 Top Ten hits. He collapsed on stage after suffering a stroke at the Latin Casino in Cherry Hill, New Jersey on September 29, 1975. Sadly he lived the rest of his life in nursing homes prior to his passing January 21, 1974 at the very young age of 49.

I played Jose Feliciano's version of Light My Fire in the first hour of the show and then played the original by The Doors to lead off the 2nd hour of the week's Treasure Island Oldies show. So I thought I'd play their signature hit song for you here at the Treasure Island Oldies Blog.

Here are The Doors with a great live performance of Light My Fire. It's our Song of the Week.

Monday, April 14, 2014

It was great to spend another 4 hours with you again this week on
Treasure Island Oldies. I love playing all those great songs you remember, and
hearing them unlocks so many memories. In case you weren’t able to hear the
Live show, be sure to go to the Listen
page for the Archive of this
week’s show. I’m pleased to bring back for an encore presentation the popular
feature Hits From Across The Pond with
Fay Greenwood, who tells the background story to a song that scored the big
time in the United Kingdom and then you get to hear it. It originally aired starting in 2009 and sounds
great all over again. Be sure to listen to this repeat presentation during the
4th hour every week.

We’re three weeks away from celebrating the 17th Anniversary of Treasure Island Oldies. Join me Live Sunday, May 4th for the
celebration, and also on the Archives.

Do you have a birthday coming up soon? Please let me know by sending the
details to birthdays@treasureislandoldies.com.
I’ll be pleased to wish you Happy Birthday
on the show and play Birthday by The Beatles to help you celebrate your
very special day.

The Treasure Island Oldies Blog
is playing a Number One song that remained at the top of the charts for 4 weeks
in 1969. It’s Tommy Roe with Dizzy, and it’s our Song of the Week. Enjoy!

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About Me

I love good music - period, but I have a passion for the music of
the '50, '60s and '70s. I started Treasure Island Oldies for two
reasons: I had to get back on the air; I missed radio so much. I also
got tired of hearing "good times and 'eight' oldies", and knew with all
my previous radio programming experience, I could offer a weekly oldies
show that would feature familiar songs but also a lot of "instant
memories", songs you have not heard since they were first played on the
radio for a short time, then disappeared, seemingly forever. I knew
having someone hear a song they have not heard for literally 30 or 40
years, would touch a nerve. Perhaps the memory of a special occasion,
or maybe just another day, that particular song really caught their ear
back then. And every time I play one of those what I call Lost
Treasures, I get immediate individual feedback from the chat room,
email and my blogs. So I play a lot of music heard hardly anywhere
else. Join me live Sundays 6 to 10 p.m. Pacific, and also, the weekly
show archives at www.TreasureIslandOldies.com Let the memories flow!